Green Pine (communications)
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The Green Pine UHF communications system was designed to relay Strategic Air Command (SAC) Emergency Action Messages (EAMs) to SAC aircraft. Green Pine was designed in 1967.[1] Each Green Pine station was equipped with a variety of communications systems, to ensure that nuclear command and control messages would reach nuclear strategic bombers in Northern latitudes.[1]
Locations
- Adak, Alaska[2]
- Argentia, Newfoundland Naval Station Argentia
- Barter Island
- Cambridge Bay
- Cape Dyer
- Cape Parry
- Cold Bay
- Dye 3
- Hall Beach
- Melville
- Keflavik, Iceland
- Point Barrow
- Thule, Greenland
See also
- Survivable Low Frequency Communications System (SLFCS)
- Post Attack Command and Control System (PACCS)
- Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN)
- Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network (MEECN)
- Emergency Rocket Communications System (ERCS)
References
- ^ a b Graff, Garrett M. (2017). Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself - While the Rest of Us Die. Simon & Schuster.
- ^ Strategic Air Command Regulation 100-24 Vol III: SAC Communications System Operations/EWO Support Requirements, 6 Jul 1979[unreliable source?]